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hello welcome the hoop collective podcast we talk about the nba which we're doing in a pre-recorded situation Hello and welcome to the Hoop Collective podcast.

We talk about the NBA, which we're doing in a pre-recorded situation because it's August and not everybody's in position.

So we appreciate your understanding.

All right.

Joining us from somewhere in Northern California, he can't be disclosed where he's at in case somebody may come try to get him.

It's Tim Bontemps. Hello, everybody.

And join us from Dallas, Texas, is Bann McMahon.

Hey, Porter.

Thanks for the closing, disclosing where I am.

And I say, come and get me.

All right.

So, Bontems, you have a story that came out early this week. I believe it was over the weekend about parity in the NBA and whether or not it is going to remain the way it has been or whether the current rules are going to continue to have us have a new champion every year. And the reason I liked this story is because there are two interviews contained in here

that took place in the wake of the championship and while the transactions were going on,

you know, while the draft was happening and free agency was happening and everything. And I don't know if everybody, you know, while the draft was happening and free agency was happening and everything.

And I don't know if everybody, you know, who was paying attention to the NBA at the time,

was paying attention to the things that Sam Presti, the president of the champion thunder,

and what Adam Silver said in his board of governor's meeting in Las Vegas at Summer League about where the NBA

is headed in this regard. And this is sort of the basis of what you built this story around.

So with the point here being that we've had, was it seven consecutive different champions?

Yeah.

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